Department of Art History

Please join us for this year's Global Ancient Art Symposium featuring Department of Art History faculty.

Panel 1: Cloth and Devotion: 10:30a-12:20p

Jas’ Elsner, “Curtains and Pictures from Antiquity Onwards”

Wei-Cheng Lin, "Miniature Clothes from the Crypt of the Faman Pagoda: Modeling the True Body”

Lunch: CWAC Lounge, 12:30-1:30

Panel 2: Sculpted Bodies 1:30p-3:10p

Richard Neer, “Surface, Depth and Textiles: Sculptural Scenography”

Claudia Brittenham, “Making Cloth and Bodies in Mesoamerica”

Break 3:10-3:30

Panel 3: Cloth and Rulership 3:30p-4:20p

Wu Hung, “When the emperor lets his robes hang down”: Clothing and rulership in Han art”

Discussion 4:20-5p